Job Advert Summary
Our client is looking for a Registered Nurse (RN) / Professional Nurse (PN) with proven UROLOGY experience.
This is for fixed shifts at a private practice group in Pretoria (Gauteng).
Period
Nov - April
Paid training will be provided and work starts in January.
Hours
Mon - Friday 08:00. Off over Dec.
Minimum Requirements
- Valid SANC licence
- Must have own indemnity insurance cover
- At least 6 months working experience in an Urology environment is essential
- A good understanding and application of the nursing scope of practice
- Knowledge of clinical procedures, relevant nursing legislation, the Scientific Nursing Process and BCA bundles
- Management of surgical equipment and instruments
- Infection prevention and control (IPC) principles and protocols
- Risk management
- Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Own transport
Duties and Responsibilities
- Uro-dynamic studies (for Gauteng Urology as well as other referred patients)
- Assist doctors in stent removal procedures in rooms, and set up scope for stent removal
- Assist doctors in scope procedures in rooms
- Responsible for all the stock necessary for UDS studies and stent removals in rooms
- BCG Bladder Cancer installations (only Gauteng Urology practice)
- Teaching patients to self‑catheterisation – register on Coloplast programme
- Changing of catheters – supra‑pelvic or urethral
- Nursing duties such as: removing clips, removing stents, removing catheters, small wound care, giving injections, collecting midstream urine
- Uro‑flow studies
- Healthcare information on urology patients
- Stock control and ordering of stock for practices
- PMA and application for chronic medication forms
- Quotations, billing and payments for uro‑dynamic patients and BCG patients on Vericlaim
- Traveling between three urology practices